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Female centaur
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Female centaur

White marble, 1st cent. A.D.
Oplontis excavations
Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, inv. 70071, 71357

This statue too has a channel inside, through which water passed to flow out of the fawn's mouth. The four centaurs, like all the sculptures in the Villa of Poppaea, are Roman copies of Greek originals.